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Or it may be that our more active feet may entice us to mount the winding flights of stone steps leading to the heights of Sant’ Elmo, where from the windows of the monastery of San Martino there is spread out before us an entrancing view that has but two possible rivals for extent and interest in all Italy:—the panorama of the Eternal City from the hill of San Pietro in Montorio, and that of Florence with the valley of the Arno from the lofty terrace of San Miniato.
With all my attachment to other nations, how much I prefer Italy! yet Heaven knows that however much more delightful to me is the sound of the Italian name, still sweeter must be that of Piedmont, the land of my fathers. Opposite to Buffalora lies San Martino. Here the Lombard brigadier spoke of the Piedmontese carabineers, saluted me, and repassed the bridge. "Let us go to Novara!"
The façade of S. Martino is of the fourteenth century, as is that of S. Agostino, its neighbour, where you may find another altar by Stagio. Then it may be at evening you seek the sea-shore, that mysterious, forlorn coast where the waves break almost with a caress.
Holland, France, and Russia also joined in the effort; so that at length the brave projector had the satisfaction of seeing two hospitals grow out of her once ridiculed scheme. The second hospital was erected at Pomaret, for the especial benefit of the valleys of San Martino and Pragela.
Martino answered not; he took up the glove, thrust it in his bosom, and strode hastily away; only, when he had got some paces down the street, he turned back, and, shaking his clenched hand at Adrian, exclaimed, in a voice trembling with impotent rage "Faithful to death!"
Oh, Martino," she cried; "will you not be my friend, rather?" "Never in this world!" At this, and all at once, she was weeping. "Ah, but you are cruel!" she sobbed, looking up at me through her tears. "Have you no pity for one hath never known aught of true love or gentleness? Wilt not forget past scores and strive to love me some little Martino?"
Indeed it almost seemed as he too felt something of this, for he stood a while, his head bowed and very still, like one listening intently; suddenly he was before me, had grasped my two fettered hands, and when he spake it was in little more than whisper. "Alas, Don Martino good my friend, Death creepeth all about you here " "Fra Alexo's spies!" I nodded.
As a literary curiosity of its kind, we subjoin his list of what were then considered the best writers on the affairs of the New World Those in Italics have been already inserted into this work. Peter Martyr of Angleria. Diego de la Tobilla. Motolinea. Don Hernando Colon. Olonsa de Ojeda. Alonso de Mata. Enciso. Gonzalo Hernandez de Oviedo. Francisco Lopez de Gomara. Andres de San Martino.
Italian infantry carried out a number of successive attacks in the region of Monte Rombon in the Plezzo basin and on the height commanding the position of Lucinico, southeast of San Martino del Carso.
"Nay, Jo, I I meant him no harm!" he muttered, and turning obedient to her gesture, slunk away. "Ah, Martino," said Joanna, stooping above me, "'twould seem I must be for ever saving your life to you, yes. Are you not grateful, no?" "Aye, I am grateful!" quoth I, remembering my enemy. "Then prove me it!" "As how?" "Speak me gently, look kindly on me, for I am sick, Martino, and shall be worse.
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